A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A snail can sleep for three years. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. There are more chickens than people in the world. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Regards Andy The Movie Poster Forum www.movieposterforum.com ----Original Message Follows---- From: Sharon Herndon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: [MOPO] FA: Original posters from 50's thru 80's, many oversized Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 03:25:49 -0500 For auction on Ebay, ending Thursday night. No reserve. Seller ID: rememberwhenshop Oversized posters Let It Be (1970) orig 30x40 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) orig 40x60 Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) orig 40x60 Funny Lady (1975) orig 30x40 Picnic (reissue 1961) orig 40x60 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (reissue 1970) orig 40x60 Prisoner of Zenda (no date--may be original or reissue) orig 3 sheet Let's Make Love (1960) orig 40x60. Marilyn Monroe +++++ The Story of Three Loves (1951) orig os Emergency Hospital (1954) orig os Escape From Zahrain (1962) orig os Everything's Ducky (1961) orig os. Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett The Entertainer (1960) orig os. Laurence Olivier Education of Sonny Carson (1974) orig os. Black film Empire of the Ants (1977) orig os El Condor (1970) orig os. Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef Embryo (1976) orig os Marsha, the Erotic Housewife (1970) orig os. Exploitation The Student Nurses (1970) orig os. Exploitation The Student Body (1976) orig os. Exploitation Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (1972) orig os. Woody Allen Emmanuelle the Joys of a Woman (1975) orig os. X-rated The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-the-Moon Marigolds (1972) orig os. Joanne Woodward E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) reg orig os Eric and Olga (1986) AKA Turkish Delight orig os. Paul Verhoen Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1988) orig os Empire Strikes Back (1982) advance orig os Empire Strikes Back (1982) style B orig os Endless Love (1981) orig os. Brooke Shields The Elephant Man (1980) orig os Thanks for looking. Sharon Herndon Remember When Shop Dallas, TX rememberwhenshop.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
